 | Decisions
2009-03-24, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I still don’t know if I will mail my jewelry or bring it on the plane. Both have big risks of loss. On the plane I would be forced to put a lot of the jewelry in my checked bags as they only allow 5 k... |
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 | Checking on my jewelry progress
2009-03-20, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Today I visited each silversmith and checked the progress. We also took photos for a newspaper article that is being written on me, and my company, back home in the US; they wanted photos of me workin... |
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 | Wood Peace Signs
2009-03-19, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I drove out to Tampaksiring today to pick up some peace signs I had carved special for me from Sono wood. I was surprised to see so many of the shops still closed and a lot of ceremonies still going o... |
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 | Hari Raya Galungan
2009-03-18, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Today is a special holiday for Balinese of the Hindu religion called Hari Raya Galungan (Holy Day). On Galungan Holy Day, Balinese Hindu people make offerings to Ida Sang Hyang Widhi (Balinese word fo... |
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 | Plastic friends from Kuta
2009-03-16, Kuta, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I took the Perama bus to Kuta today about 1.5 hours by bus. I had some lunch and enjoyed sitting on the beach and watching the surf crowd. I got a massage from an old woman (not very good) and I said ... |
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 | Cement Policeman, driving and fireflies
2009-03-15, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | This morning both my eyes were a little swollen but not bad considering the bee in the eye caper. As I drink my coffee in my hammock I can watch the monkeys playing in the trees and running through my... |
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 | Obama, Symon the artist & afternoon guests
2009-03-14, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Today after a visit to the store I went to Champuan, another village outside of Ubud, where I stopped at Symon’s gallery. He is a low art style of pop artist… Indonesian’s version of Andy Warhol. I ha... |
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 | Lobsters and monkey encounters
2009-03-12, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I spent the morning at the pool at Champlang Sari, the hotel across the street from my bungalows. I pay 10,000 Rupia to use the pool for a day with the current exchange rate this is less than a dollar... |
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 | Coffee at Guskok's
2009-03-11, Mas, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Wednesday, I went to a Goskok’s house for coffee, he lives in Mas a town outside of Ubud. He has been a friend for eight years… mostly as the owner of one of my favorite restaurants Barandi (now Siam ... |
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 | Days fly by
2009-03-10, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I can’t believe I have already been here 7 days! I haven’t written much because nothing really eventful has happened since my police encounter. I hung a hammock from my balcony and I spend a lot of ti... |
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 | Rainbows, white herons and payola
2009-03-07, Kintamani, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I woke up to a beautiful rainbow over the rice paddies with elegant and slender white herons flying through the sky. I wake up around 6 am here because the mornings are so cool and nice I don’t want t... |
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 | The police will rob you!
2009-01-19, Ubud, Indonesia. By: jemandtaz | | We've had some fun the last couple of days, in and around Ubud. The other day we found an amazing sushi restaurnt called Ryoshi just around the corner. We ordered enough sushi to feed an army. And the... |
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 | Indonesian ferry diaster :-(
2009-01-16, Ubud, Indonesia. By: jemandtaz | | Remember the other day when we mentioned a night of unbelievably loud thunder? Well it seems that in the early hours of the morning after the storm had passed over Bali, a passenger ferry in the India... |
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 | Jemma and Taz's scooter adventures
2009-01-15, Ubud, Indonesia. By: jemandtaz | | Hello, it's Jemma - Taz is sat next to me trying to work facebook out, bless him!
I have been ill for a couple of days. The Bali belly is not a myth :-( Woke up Tuesday morning and couldn't eat br... |
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 | Thunder!!
2009-01-12, Ubud, Indonesia. By: jemandtaz | | The morning after our hellish journey back to Bali we boarded a minibus to Ubud, away from the coast in search of a little more culture.. we are not dissapointed! When we arrived we found an ok hotel ... |
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 | The nicest hotel ever!! The Sentosa - 5*
2009-01-06, Sengiggi, Lombok, Indonesia, Indonesia. By: jemandtaz | | Hi everyone!
Yesterday we got on a 4 hour ferry from Padang Bai to Lombar which is the island next door to Bali. After the ferry we hopped on a bus for an hour to Senggigi where we were dropped off... |
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 | Padang Bai, Bali
2009-01-03, Padang bai, Bali, Indonesia. By: jemandtaz | | Hello everyone! A few days have gone by and we thought we'd let you know how we've been getting on...
31st December.
New years Eve in Bali was very interesting! We got drunk on cheap bintang beer... |
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 | Bali
2008-12-24, Bali, Indonesia. By: yogibeari | | Bali – the Hindu island of Indonesia:
The departure from Yogyakarta was uneventful. I couldn’t help notice the difference in airport protocol where there were no boarding announcements and the securi... |
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| Yogyakarta
2008-12-19, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. By: yogibeari | | Yogyakarta and Borobudur:
Yogyakarta, also called Yogya for short:
Central to the island of Java, Yogya remains Java’s premier tourist city as evident with rows of hotels and restaurants in every... |
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| Jakarta
2008-12-19, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: yogibeari | | Indonesia:
Southeast Asian country of about 235 million who are predominantly muslim.
Transportation: Trains, buses, andong and becak (pronounced “bay check”). Andongs are horse drawn calesas and be... |
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